argh, Tumblr is horrible

[kindkit]

Jesus fucking Christ, why do people claim Tumblr is such a great interface?

I stupidly made an actual post over there, and now I have driven myself to tears of rage and frustration because I can't figure out how to edit it. I can't even click on it, because I accidentally didn't give it a title and that seems to have made it unclickable.

Help, please!?!


ETA: Crisis possibly averted, because I have worked out that the default theme doesn't let you do anything and switched to a theme that, by sheer good fortune, does. Still, what a terrible terrible posting interface.

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[kindkit]

I really don't get why Tumblr is such a thing. Or at least, being such a thing, why is it so hard to use? I join you in bafflement.

[cathexys]

It's incredibly hard to use, hard to post to, hard to edit, and I hate it only slightly less than twitter.

Sigh...

Glad you figured it out. I think the special themes that make everything look completely different are evil...especially, when people get cute with it!

[genarti]

I have artist friends who like it a lot for being so easy to post art, and share other people's pictures around. And I've been told that people find it easier to find others with shared interests (because you can just look in the tags for something) than it is on LJ/DW/etc.

That's the only part that's made sense to me. I use it because I have a lot of friends who use tumblr more or less exclusively, and I want to hang out with them, but... I still don't really use it to talk to them. I talk to them in chats or elsewhere, mostly, and DW is still the online home of my heart. (Twitter's made a fair foothold too, but twitter is a totally different style of discourse, and not at all good for long conversations.) I haaaaaate the entire tumblr interface, and the underlying corporate attitude that goes with it.